Books Published in July 1993

New Books List: 447 titles

  • Political Poison

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Paul Turner is not your typical middle-aged cop. A widower, he lives with his two teenaged sons, and he is gay. He is also trusted by the brass to handle sensitive cases, so when a Chicago alderman is found murdered, Turner is assigned to the case....

  • Nothing to Do But Stay

    Carrie Young

  • Cradle and All

    Rebecca York

    "Your baby is missing." Abby Franklin's dream of cuddling and crooning to her new baby turned into a nightmare with those four words. On the day she and husband Steve Claiborne were to fill their nursery, little Shannon was kidnapped. But who h...

  • Marauder

    William F. Wu

  • Dark Visions

    T. Lucien Wright

    In order to save herself from the bloodlust of Freeman Ridge, a terrifying killer with supernatural powers, Amelia must surrender to the evil secrets of "the tunnel," a vision that she has had since she was a child. Original....

  • Dead Matter

    M.K. Wren

    The celebrated author, Ravin Gould, his equally celebrated actress wife, the media, the locals, and as many tourists as can cram themselves into Conan Flagg's bookstore are all on hand for that electric moment when Cady MacGill, the sheriff's son-in-...

  • Kate's Vow

    Sherryl Woods

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Overwhelmed by single fatherhood, widower David Winthrop feared he was failing his savvy, sad-eyed, ten-year-old son. Still, he never expected hotshot divorce attorney Kate Newton to descend u...

  • Snowjob

    Ted Wood

    It's ski season in Vermont. The snow is good. The ski lifts are busy. The apre's-ski bars are bustling with thirsty tourists. But the little town of Chambers is, in many ways, not nearly as snow-white as the hills that surround it. Not everyone in Ch...

  • Doll's Eyes

    Bari Wood

    SIGHT UNSEEN Eve Klein was born with a “gift” she doesn’t want. It drove her husband away and her mother to suicide. It forces her to see things…to know things. In her mind, she can see the pain, the terror, the blood. And the eyes -- c...

  • The Software Bomb

    Steven Womack

    The computer virus nesting in a New Orleans bank data file chooses to surface at a particularly bad time, just as the institution is posed to bankroll the city's new lottery. A hacker demands $5 million before he will undo the nasty program, and the ...

  • A Star-Spangled Murder

    Valerie Wolzien

    THE DEATH OF THE PARTY Susan Henshaw and her family have been coming to their summer house in Maine for years, but when neighbor Humphrey Taylor is found bludgeoned to death in her living room, Susan's relaxing holiday goes out with the tide. S...

  • Operation: Save the Teacher

    Meg Wolitzer

    When Mr. Graham, their fifth-grade teacher, invites them to work on a summer project with him, Alison, Susan, Julie, and Trina discover that Mr. Graham is making plans for his future happiness. Original....

  • Stella and Roy

    Ashley Wolff

    Stella's bike is faster than little Roy's, so she thinks she can climb trees, count turtles, feed a horse, and still win their race around the park, but Roy's perseverance pays off in a tale illustrated in hand-tinted linocuts....

  • Reckless Wind

    Bonnie K. Winn

    WANTED -- A HUSBAND Jem was a tomboy with no interest in marriage. But she had to find a husband--fast--or she'd lose the family ranch ... MARRIAGE OR JAIL Reese was a drifter without a penny to his name. Then he was bailed out of jail by...

  • Mexican Caress

    Linda Windsor

    ENCHANTING ROGUE When she agreed to return to her native Mexico to settle a family matter, lovely Marianna Gallier never dreamed that en route she'd come face to face with the very man who had killed her parents. Nor did the raven-haired innocent ...

  • Kentucky Thunder

    Clara Wimberly

    A DEFIANT SOUTHERN BELLE Her emerald eyes ablaze, Leanna McNairy aimed her pistol at the Yankees heart, her pulse pounding. How dare he ask her to leave her beloved home? How could he suggest that her father had betrayed the Southern cause and ent...

  • A Healing Fire

    Patricia Wilson

    Jenna had never known the father who had walked out on his wife and home when Jenna herself was only a child. But she had grown up hating him for the misery he had caused. Now he was dead, and it appeared that she had a claim on his estate in France....

  • Hart's Obsession

    Mary Anne Wilson

    OASIS...OR MIRAGE Facts had always ruled David Hart's ordered life, but when his twin brother disappeared without a trace, David's actions defied logic. To find his brother, David was drawn into the desert--and to Carin Walker, a woman whose ideas...

  • The Cygnet

    Marianne Willman

    Brigand Blood? Vera, she had called herself, claiming to own no other name. But the sylvan-bred girl before him had an ethereal beauty that whispered of something noble in her past. Something that could save Giles Rathborne from ruin... or send h...

  • Passion's Verdict

    Frances Williams

    A QUESTION OF INNOCENCE When a cop escorted a handcuffed prisoner into the roadside diner, reporter Kelsey Merrill was intrigued. And when she discovered that the convict being transferred to the state penitentiary was none other than the notoriou...

  • The Hawk and the Jewel

    Lori Wick

    FROM THE TAPESTRIED HALLS OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND TO THE ALABASTER COURTS OF ARABIA, THE KENSINGTON CHRONICLES WILL SWEEP YOU FAR AWAY TO ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE. For years, Lord Gallagher's family has thought that Sunny perished with Lady Gallagher i...

  • There's a Hole in the Bucket

    Nadine Bernard Westcott

  • Ghost Legion

    Margaret Weis

    Young Dion Starfire is the ruler of a galaxy that is finally at peace after `years of strife and bloodshed. Yet the peace is an uneasy one. Dion has fallen desperately in love with a woman who is not his queen, and suddenly the fragile alliances that...

  • Impulse

    Michael Weaver

    Barely surviving the vicious attack that ended his wife's life, columnist Paul Garrett must track down the psychopathic killer who would target his new love and make Garret his link to the world he preys upon. Reprint....

  • Split Heirs

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    The Ancient & Honorable Kingdom of the Hydrangeans is now the latest conquest of the mighty Gorgorian warrior GUDGE. To Gudge's bride, Queen Artemisia of Hydrangea, are born a set of royal triplets. But traditional Gorgorian belief holds tha...

  • The Best Medicine

    Janet Lane Walters

    ALONE AGAIN! Now that she's single again, Maggie Carr has a chance to make her own choices --where she'll live, what she'll do, who her friends will be. Best of all, she can go back to the nursing career she enjoyed so much. It's e...

  • Clear-Cut Murder

    Lee Wallingford

    CUTTING EDGE Neskanie National Forest law-enforcement officials Ginny Trask and Frank Carver have their work cut out for them as long as the Northwest timberlands remain a furious battlefield between environmentalists and the logging industry. ...

  • Night of the Cooters

    Howard Waldrop

    Now Howard Waldrop returns with the newest volume in his collection of bizarre voyages of the imagination. Voyage with him to... TEXAS: where Martians invade-and find their own Alamo ~ LONDON where Sherlock Holmes tracks down Jack the Ripper - or som...

  • Moon Over Black Bayou

    Sharon Wagner

    “Don’t anger the Guardian, Leonora. Nobody will be able to save you.” Leonora McGuire had been the happiest of brides…until her husband’s cruel betrayal. Desperate to escape her Natchez home -- and its haunting memories -- she journeyed ...

  • Cry of the Peacock

    Tina Vasilos

    He had no memories. . . After a car crash, Robert Minardos's mind wiped out. And then a mysteriously familiar woman offered to help him recover on a lush, isolated Greek island. But was the island a safe haven or a trap? Deep in the foliage, pe...

  • The Fantastic Fairy Tale Pop-up Book

    Ron Van der Meer

    Sleeping Beauty's castle, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother's cottage, and Cinderella's kitchen and garden come to three-dimensional life in a collection that also includes four miniature storybooks....

  • On Martha's Vineyard, Mostly

    Lawrence Treat

  • Joseph

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor

    The highly regarded author of John--Son of Thunder offers a fascinating portrait of one of the Bible's most beloved Old Testament heroes. Filled with political intrigue and powerful spiritual lessons about how God works in the hearts and lives of His...

  • Dynamite Pass

    J.F. Trainor

    ANGIE BIWABAN She's a tough Native American detective from Duluth. She's on the wrong side of the law--and the right side of justice... When you're a convicted embezzler who's just served three years in a South Dakota women's prison, life's mos...

  • Earth Song, Sky Spirit

    Clifford E. Trafzer

    A vibrant, vital anthology of stories that  portray the lives of Native Americans today, featuring  the work of N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich,  Leslie Marmon Silko, and more than two dozen other  gifted, authentic voices....

  • Dark Enchantment

    Jane Toombs

    Legacy of fear The Bleak, shadow-haunted old house on the shores of Lake Superior was Inary Cameron's only inheritance - or so she had always believed. But the temptation to explore a long-forgotten room led to the chilling discovery that she was ...

  • Raise the Red Lantern

    Su Tong

    The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China--worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction--belie his prose of stunning and simple beauty. The title novella, "Raise the R...

  • The Horse Thieves

    Giles Tippette

    INTRODUCING WARNER GRAYSON-HORSEMAN. FEATURING WILSON YOUNG -- GUNMAN. AND A WHOLE NEW CAST OF CHARACTERS IN GILES TIPPETTE'S MOST RIVETING WESTERN YET... THE HORSE THIEVES A gang of Mexican bandits had robbed Warner Grayson and left him to die. In ...

  • Palo Duro

    Bruce H. Thorstad

  • Winds of Promise

    Victoria Thompson

    They forged a fiery passion from a harsh and rugged land... ONLY HE COULD FREE HER CAGED HEART After the slaughter of her husband and child in the chaos of the War Between the States, Sarah Peters had been taken prisoner by the fierce Comanche. F...

  • The Bully Brothers Gobblin' Halloween

    Mike Thaler

  • Fiance for Sale

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    SHE WANTED A PRETEND ENGAGEMENT Houston cosmetics heiress Caroline Lord needed a fiance . . . fast! And Rick Cassidy--with his tousled black locks and luscious green eyes--was definitely the hottest cook in her kitchen. Caroline paid Rick to pl...

  • Sweet Sensations

    Julie Tetel

    Stranger at the door! Barbara Johnson was a woman alone - except for the child of war she clutched fiercely to her breast. The child had freed her heart to love, but now the past threatened her hard-won peace. And only a soul-scarred stranger sto...

  • Promise Me Love

    Jennifer Taylor

    It was one proposal she should have refused. Beth Thomas needed a job and a place to live. David Kane offered her both. But she didn't need to get married. Yet David was making marriage part of his offer, stating matter-of-factly that it woul...

  • The Makioka Sisters

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    Junichirō Tanizaki’s magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a classic of international literature.
    ...

  • The Kommandant's Mistress

    Sherri Szeman

    The relationship between the Kommandant of a Nazi concentration camp and the Jewish woman inmate whom he forces to become his "mistress," is revealed from the perspectives of both protagonists, as well as from ostensibly objective biographical encycl...

  • Forests of the Night

    S. Andrew Swann

    NEVER CROSS A HUMAN That was the first thing Nohar Rajasthan had learned, back when he was still a cub, back when his parents led a bloody moreau rebellion and left him an orphan. It was then he realized that, to humans, moreaus -- the various ani...

  • Forbidden Zone

    Whitley Strieber

    The mound, a quiet town gathering spot ... until now. Now something undeniably evil is hiding beneath it. A powerful darkness, terror with unfathomable needs and desires, spreading its roots in secret, transforming all that the good townfolk love a...

  • Free Willy

    Todd Strasser

    A VERY SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP Eleven-year-old Jesse has a new friend -- a mighty 7,000-pound killer whale named Willy. But Willy is miserable as the star attraction at an amusement park. He longs to be reunited with his family out at sea. Now the p...

  • Manhattan Transfer

    John E. Stith

    THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED...AND MANHATTAN IS THE ULTIMATE SOUVENIR When Manhattan -- and everyone on it -- is kidnapped into space by some unknown alien force, the humans trapped on the island are faced with a baffling (and terrifying) enigma. An art...

  • Mysterious Cat Stories

    John Richard Stephens

  • Murder at the Class Reunion

    Triss Stein

    CLASS KILLER After making it "big" as a New York journalist, Kay Engels returns to her twentieth high school reunion, hoping to find a good human interest story. So when Terry Campbell, voted Best Looking in Her Class, is found strangled in her h...

  • Vanished

    Danielle Steel

    Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy--the mysterious abduction of their young son. In the late 1930's, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares...

  • Critical Condition

    Martha Stearn

  • Summer Lightning

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    From a New York Times"bestselling author, a teen falls for her ghostly protector and must choose between him and her real-life boyfriend.   Melissa Loring appears to have it all -- generous parents, great friends, a devoted boyfriend. Tripp is...

  • Dead in the Water

    Dana Stabenow

    She's a savvy investigator with the cool toughness of Sam Spade -- and a smile that could melt a block of ice. Once the star of the Anchorage D.A.'s office, she's gone back to her roots in the far Alaska north. But Kate's taken her talent for detecti...

  • Lost World II

    Marcio Souza

  • Small Faces

    Gary Soto

    The author of A Summer Life shares memories of his childhood, such as the hideous jacket he was forced to wear for three years, his grandmother's advising him to be a barber, and other gems. Reissue....

  • Asian Front

    Ian Slater

    At Manzhouli, near the border of China, Siberia, and Mongolia, the Chinese launch their charge into the woods. There is the roar of fire--and from the other side, the eruption of the SAS/D's Heckler & Koch 9mm parabellums firing at over eight hundred...

  • Raven in Amber

    Patricia Simpson

    IT ALL BEGAN WITH AN AMBER NECKLACE From the moment she steps off the bus on the edge of Washington State's Nakalt Indian Reservation, Camille Avery is certain she's made a mistake. Maybe taking a leave of absence from her teaching job to illustra...

  • Glimpses

    Lewis Shiner

    Ray Shackleford, a disillusioned, former 1960s youth, discovers that he has the special talent to tap into the spiritual energies of such music legends as Morrison, Hendrix, and Lennon to access songs that had never been written. Reprint....

  • Buffalo Guns

    Jon Sharpe

  • A Big Fat Enormous Lie

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mullah Nasrudin

    Idries Shah

    The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. This delightful collection of teaching stories in which Mulla Nasrudin is the main actor is both an outstanding anthology of humor and a book of Sufi wisdom.
     

  • Apache Conquest

    Theresa (1) Scott

    Sent to the New World to wed a stranger, beautiful young Carmen was prepared to love the man her uncle had chosen, But on the trail to Santa Fe, a recklessly virile half-breed Indian set her blood afire, tempting her to forget her betrothed, And ...

  • Garters and Spurs

    DeLoras Scott

    The Search For The Truth Sara Carter had spent most of her womanhood running the Bar C and tracking the outlaws who killed her family. She'd put aside all the normal things girls were supposed to do. She didn't care about that frilly stuff anyhow,...

  • The Other Woman

    Candace Schuler

    THE LATEST FROM THE TABLOIDS... SOAP STAR SNARES MOVIE MOGUL Tara Charming-TV's sexiest seductress and star of the new movie The Promise-has hooked her claws into Gage Kingston of the legendary moviemaking family. Insiders reveal the studio is ira...

  • Huckle Cat's Busiest Day Ever

    Richard Scarry

    Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm experience an activity-filled day in Busytown as they help Mother Cat bake an apple pie, fly a kite with Father Cat, go on a treasure hunt, and enjoy a visit from Mr. Frumble. Children's BOMC Main....

  • Highland Fire

    Veronica Sattler

    From the pomp and privilege of aristocratic London . . . Orphaned by the tragic accident that took her parents' lives, Lady Christina St. John knows she has little choice but to sell herself into a loveless marriage. That is, until she discovers she...

  • Laird's Mount

    Madelyn Sanders

    If the walls could talk, would they tell her to leave? The house on the hill The townspeople avoided it. Their warnings told her to escape it. But Susannah Hathaway had inherited Laird's Mount. She knew her mother had died in the house, but...

  • Gentle Persuasion

    Sharon Sala

    Errand of Mercy Debbie Randall liked to think of her trip as an errand of mercy. Her best friend's father had broken his leg in a car crash, and Debbie was the only person who could give him the full-time care he needed. But deep down inside, she ...

  • The Pool

    T.S. Rue

    Kelly is elated when she lands her dream job as a lifeguard at the New Arcadia Inn pool, but a string of bizarre poolside accidents soon convinces her that someone, or something, is after the lifeguards. Original....

  • Tell Mrs. Poole I'm Sorry

    Kathleen Rowntree

    The friendship between three schoolgirls, intense and inter-dependent as a blood-tie, has consequences for the rest of their lives. As adults their lives diverge, but one thing never changes, when one of them hits trouble, the others come to her aid....

  • Outpost!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    They crossed the vast frontier in pursuit of a dream, men and women whose courage and daring shaped the future of a great young nation and forged an unforgettable legacy of passion and adventure in a brave new land they called home.... THE FIRST H...

  • Cuervo Tales

    Robert Roper

    These tales take place in the mountains of northern California and recall a town--called Cuervo--that has figured as a renegade community since the first Mexican settlers wiped out ``a particularly passive'' tribe of Costanoan Indians. Cuervo has sin...

  • New Deal for Death

    Elliott Roosevelt

    IN 1932, ONLY ONE THING COULD STOP ROOSEVELT FROM GETTING ELECTED: A SCANDAL INVOLVING THE CANDIDATE'S SON, ELLIOTT, AND A PREGNANT SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL! Blackjack Endicott, the Boston banker who rubs shoulders with both mobsters and millionaires...

  • The Gates of Noon

    Michael Scott Rohan

    Shipping agent Stephen Fisher knows the world of international trade--and he has journeyed through realms of mtyth and malevolence hidden to all but a stalwart few Stymied in his attempts to ship life-saving technology to a beleaguered island nati...

  • Gates of Noon

    Michael S. Rohan

    Determined to ship life-saving technology to a beleaguered island nation, Stephen Fisher ventures through the Spiral--a sphere of legends and monsters--only to find that dread forces await his coming. Reprint. AB. K. PW. ...

  • Desert Heat

    Evelyn Rogers

    FIERY PASSION When her social-climbing mother decided to marry her off to some empty-headed fop, Jayne Worthington decided that the time had come to leave the foolish frivolity of New York society far behind. But embarking on a search for her belo...

  • Coyote Cry

    Kenn Sherwood Roe

  • Lady Valiant

    Suzanne Robinson

    A REBELLIOUS BEAUTY Once Mary, Queen of Scots, had been her closest friend. Now Thea Hunt was determined to pay back the queen's kindness--by journeying to Scotland to warn her away from a treacherous marriage. But in the thick of an English for...

  • Heaven's Only Daughter

    Kathleen Robinson

    The conflict in 410 A.D. between the Goths and the Romans involves Dia, the Emperor's half-sister, in a drama of love and betrayal when she is captured by the Goth Atawulf and led on a march through Europe....

  • Private Scandals

    Nora Roberts

    Deanna Reynolds had it all planned: She'd start out in the newsroom of a small Chicago station, then move up to one day host her own talk show. When her mentor Angela Perkins leaves for the big time in New York, Deanna risks everything for the chance...

  • Vigilante Hunt

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams rides into a hailstorm of hot lead when a band of gunmen takes down the bank in Broken Back, Kansas. But things get hotter when the town hires a hardcase vigilante crew to do its dirty work. Trying to save Broken Back from its own bad ...

  • With Friends Like These...

    Gillian Roberts

    Well-known Broadway playwright and TV producer Lyle Zacharias is throwing himself a lavish birthday party in his hometown of Philadelphia, complete with current wife, ex-wives, friends, former partners--not to mention Amanda Pepper and her own irrepr...

  • Strike of the Cobra

    Timothy Rizzi

  • Take It Off, Take It All Off!

    David Ritz

  • Curfew

    Phil Rickman

    Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe -- superstitious ritual or sole defense against an ancient evil?In Crybbe, only strangers walk at twilight . . . For 400 years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly fro...

  • Fiery Attraction

    Emma Richmond

    For Domini Keane, a temporary assignment as personal assistant to the arrogant, infuriating Jack Wellby seemed more than enough. But when the playboy/entrepreneur offered her a permanent post--and all that might involve--she began to think again. Whe...

  • Sleight of Hand

    Laura Resnick

    Let's Make A Deal Alicia Cannon had paid her dues in show business. In the time she'd been in New York, she'd co-starred with a flock of bleating sheep in a commercial, played a prostitute on stage, and even worn a shark costume for a trade conve...

  • Summer's Fortune

    Joan Reeves

    Sweet Hitchhiker Summer James couldn't believe that a book could Ochange her life... until she found it! Step by step, How to Marry a Rich, Rich Man! transformed her from an ordinary girl into an irresistible lady. Now, feeling like Cinderella on ...

  • Pumpkin Light

    David Ray

  • A Convenient Marriage

    Ellen Rawlings

    A Daughter's Heart ... Gambled Away in a Card Game How could he! Regina was his only daughter, his pride and joy--how could her father gamble her hand in marriage to a kindly but much older man? Her father lost the game; Regina had no choice bu...

  • A Midsummer's Delight

    Alicia Rasley

    A DELIGHTFUL MISS Charity Calder had been only too happy to return to her country village after her first season in London, for she knew her expertise would be needed to help plan the midsummer festival. Of course, she missed the excitement and gaie...

  • The Book of Ultimate Truths

    Robert Rankin

    The late Hugh Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune, hailed as the guru's guru, penned more than eight million words of genius, but vital chapters which could have changed the course of history were suppressed. Two youths set out to recover t...

  • The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

    Manuel Ramos

    Nearing the end of his rope, middle-aged attorney Luis Montez, a former Chicano activist, encounters a beautiful Latina lawyer from his past and is reminded of the murder of his friend, the head of the Chicano student movement. Reprint....

  • Collected Stories of Reynolds Price

    Reynolds Price

    For over three decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, in a career that has been remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms he has embraced. Now he shows himself as much a master of ...

  • Sweet Stolen Passion

    Jolene Prewit-Parker

    HE WOULD NEVER FORGET HER Though he'd never forgive Ameran Michol for betraying him with his trusted friend, Lord Grayson Carlisle knew he couldn't forget the rapturous nights of love they'd shared on a moonswept island beach. And now King Charles...

  • Lonesome Rider

    Heather Graham Pozzessere
    in

    The West--America's last frontier--a land of heartache and promise for three unforgettable heroines of UNTAMED... In “Lonesome Rider,” born to a Sioux mother and a white father, Blade McKenna grew up between two opposing worlds, never wholly b...

  • Men of War

    Jerry Pournelle

  • Against the Wind

    Patricia Potter
    in

    The West--America's last frontier--a land of heartache and promise for three unforgettable heroines of UNTAMED... A young northern woman and an ex-rebel Southern doctor learn to overcome their differences....

  • Stalker

    Nicholas Pine

  • Immortal

    Christopher Pike

    The ancient artifact was cursed. Josie is on vacation in Greece with her father, his new girlfriend, and her best friend. While visiting the sacred island of Delos, she accidentally stumbles upon an ancient artifact--a tiny statue of a Goddess. Im...

  • The Penguin Book of English Folktales

    Neil Philip

    With more than 100 memorable tales, this extensive collection brings together stirring stories from all parts of Scotland--from the vibrant Gaelic traditional Highlands and Islands to the enduring legends handed down by the Lowland Scots....

  • Sun and Moon

    Marcus Pfister

  • Accidental Dad

    Anne Peters

    The father trap Gerald Marsden had waited a long time for freedom, and he wasn't about to settle down. Not even for a sad little boy whose big brown eyes reminded him of his own unhappy childhood. But sending Pete back to the kid's grandmother was...

  • Cast a Spell

    Bette Pesetsky

  • Mice on the Moon

    Rodney Peppe

  • Battle Force

    Don Pendleton

    FINAL SALVO War rages in Eastern Europe and the superpowers are taking sides, facing off in a global disaster. As communist-led North Haakovia begins to lose its momentum with Mack Bolan leading the defense of the tree South. brutal dictator Frank...

  • Ransom Run

    Don Pendleton

    CHANGING FACE OF EVIL Easy money and fast living have made Italy's kidnapping industry one of the most profitable -- and bloody -- in the underworld. Sinistra, a deadly organization extorting ransom from the wealthy, has mutated into something bigger...

  • Love's Lost Angel

    Sonya T. Pelton

    Cruelly betrayed by the man she loved, Willow had fled the haunting memories of her stormy marriage to Texas Ranger Talon Clay Brandon. But now the child of their tempestuous union had been kidnapped ... by brutal bandits! Sworn to find her cherished...

  • Then Comes Marriage

    Bonnie Pega

    ZAC--His Potent Masculinity Could Charm Every Stitch off Her Body .... Meeting the woman of his dreams in a childbirth class was truly rotten luck, but Zac Webster felt a rush of relief when he discovered that Libby Austin was being coached by a ...

  • Alien Prey

    John Peel

    Josh and his fellow rebels have always found their ordinary hometown of Baine's Hollow boring, but suddenly things begin to take on an eerie new significance as something seems to be preying on the minds of the town's inhabitants. Original....

  • Blood Wolf

    John Peel

    After the murder of his father, King Kardak, Numin flees assassins hired by his own brother, but first he must make his way across the Broken Mountains, a perilous passage stalked by mysterious wolves. Original....

  • Grave Doubts

    John Peel

    Haunted by nightmares about the brutal murder of his older sister Penny, Matt Howard is confronted by a mysterious girl who wanders around the local graveyard, claiming that she is Penny and seeking revenge for her death. Original....

  • Night Wings

    John Peel

  • Talons

    John Peel

  • Covenant of the Poppies

    Colin D. Peel

  • Cloudburst

    Ryne Douglas Pearson

    Immediately after two Libyans assassinate the U.S. president, the United States is hit with a second blow when political extremists hijack a crowded American 747. 20,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo....

  • The Apostrophe Thief

    Barbara Paul

    BREAK A LEG New York City Police Sergeant Marian Larch is on the verge of resigning from the force after a big case leaves her jaded, frustrated and boiling mad at the system. During a cooling-off period at another precinct, she comes to the ai...

  • Scaredy-Ghost

    Bettina Paterson

  • Jessica Saves the Trees

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica goes green... Soccer fever has hit Sweet Valley Middle School! Everyone is excited about the upcoming season, including identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. But Jessica's happiness quickly fades when she learns that the scho...

  • The Missing Tea Set

    Francine Pascal

    Big Trouble



    Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are nervous about visiting their mother's friend Mrs. Taylor. The old lady is strict, but the girls love the beautiful furniture and decorations in her house. When they find a lovely silver ...

  • Morning After

    Francine Pascal

    Could the twins be split forever? A terrible accident has changed the Wakefields' lives forever. Will Jessica Wakefield ever come to terms with the tragedy? Bruce Patrnan has finally opened his heart to Pamela--but will he be able to ignore the...

  • Robin in the Middle

    Francine Pascal

    Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield can't wait for their cousin Robin to come for a visit. But when Robin arrives, both twins like her so much that they don't want to share her--even with each other. Soon they're fighting for Robin's atte...

  • Lovers' Moon

    Valerie Parv

    A stairway to the moon? Garth Blackfire wanted nothing less for his romantic paradise on Australia's steamy coast. And for the devastatingly handsome developer, only one person could fulfill his vision--Melody Green. But when Garth began t...

  • Hammer and Axe

    Dan Parkinson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The humans of Ergoth continue to encroach upon Thorbardin, but the worst threat to the dwarven fortress comes from a mysterious fog-beast and a covetous wizard. A Cobar, a kender, and a giant raptor add to the confusion as the dwarves are faced with...

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    Elizabeth Oldfield

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    Nelson Nye

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    Carla Neggers

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    Helen R. Myers

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    Marcia Muller

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    Clarence E. Mulford / Clarence Edward Mulford

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    Anna Monardo

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    Peter Michalos

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    Lynn Michaels

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    Kasey Michaels

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    Elizabeth Ann Michaels

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    Elizabeth Michaels

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    Maan Meyers

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    Jill Metcalf

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    Monte Merrick

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    Lois Menzel

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  • Trail Heat

    Joseph Meek

  • The Courting Cowboy

    Glenna McReynolds

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    Charlotte McPherren

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    Barbara McMahon

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    Molly McKitterick

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    Lindsay McKenna

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    Charles Mcguire

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    Dennis McCarty

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    Heather McCann

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    Norma Fox Mazer

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    Julian May

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    John R. Maxim

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    Bay Matthews

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  • A Woman Accused

    Sandra Marton

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    Ann M. Martin

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    Ann M. Martin

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    Ann M. Martin

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    Paula Marshall

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    Norma Marder

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    Cynthia Manson

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    Salvatore Mannuzzu

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    Paul Mann

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    Delarivier Manley

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  • The Ghost War

    Mack Maloney

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    Joanna Makepeace

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    Sara Maitland

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    Benton Mahan

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    Lee Magner

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  • Forbidden Flame

    Selina MacPherson

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  • Lone Star Lovin'

    Debbie Macomber

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    Alastair MacNeill

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    Scott MacMillan

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    Howard MacKie

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    Dorothy Mack

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  • Master of the Chase

    Susan Macias

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  • A Woman Possessed

    Malcolm MacDonald

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    George MacDonald